CVS to pull tobacco products, American Cancer Society applauds

The American Cancer Society in the Northstate said today it supports CVS Caremark’s decision to pull all tobacco products from store shelves.

"I think it's a huge step what CVS has done,” said Judi Rumsey, an American Cancer Society volunteer.

"We are still losing 480,000 people a year, annually, to smoking or some kind of smoking related issue. If we make the tobacco and their products and all the ancillary things that go along with them unavailable to them, maybe it will encourage those people that are on the border to quit," explained Rumsey.

The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain announced it estimates it will lose about $2 billion in annual revenues by removing all tobacco products.